tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228276392024-02-28T14:53:17.252+05:30Pradeep's IncoherencyPradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-79901572550121139112013-10-31T07:19:00.000+05:302013-10-31T07:19:10.488+05:30So I made Chilli Chicken!Alright, as a grown man, I should already have acquired a bit culinary skills, but sadly, that isn't the case. I am learning, bit by bit, and finally had the chance to try something, and thought lets me make Chilli Chicken!<br />
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So I followed the recipe described <a href="http://www.cookingandme.com/2011/04/dry-indian-chilli-chicken-indo-chinese.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and here are the things that gets newbies confused. (At least I was confused.)<br />
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<li>If you can, get the chicken cubes about a square inch each, smaller than that will be too small.</li>
<li>Don't bother about the chilli powder, your dish will still look great.</li>
<li>Garlic's volume will reduce once you start mincing it. 6 medium sized cloves of garlic will be enough for 500g of chicken.</li>
<li>Don't worry about all purpose flour / Maida / corn flour. Use whatever you have. I had to use 3 tbsp of all purpose corn flour, and it was good. but don't add all of the flour at once, do it gradually as you mix, that way the marinate won't get too thick.</li>
<li>When you fry the rest of the garlic paste and the chillies, make sure you have removed most of the oil from the pan that you used for frying, and left about 2 tbsp of oil only.</li>
<li>A better way to know when your onion and bell pepper are done is check that the onion has become transparent and the green of the bell pepper has paled.</li>
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Here are some pics!</div>
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The marinated chicken</div>
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Fried chicken</div>
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Half of the final product!</div>
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Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-31455174207248681282011-09-17T10:05:00.001+05:302011-09-17T14:02:46.713+05:30Bangalore Android Developers Meetup # 11 : Liveblog<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">$795 M worth of time is wasted in India alone. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">smsBlocker mobile app by Pune based startup-Optinno, addresses this problem heads on. It is powered with unique intelligence to identify if an SMS is a spam and block it automatically if detected so. This app works so well that in less than a year it has been downloaded by over 140000 users from over 110 countries & also won 5 coveted awards for being unique, innovative & highly useful.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Current Architecture of Apps</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flacky Network Connections</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Background polling hits battery, Mem, CPU, Complicated Code</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">App need not run</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Efficient</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lower cost and better tracking</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Android Marketplace</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google Account</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HTTPS application server that should be</span><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Able to communicate with the client</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Able to fire of HTTP rew to C2DM server</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Security Requirements</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guaranteed Delivery</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SLA on delivery</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notification quota</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notify about new data, not the data itself</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not suitable for Critical Use Cases</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">App need not run all the time</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Google User Account required</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No GUI component</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Limit to the no of msgs</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still in beta</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">C2DM : Cloud to Device Messaging, which allows Devs to send events (sometimes data, not recommended ) to their Apps running on Android Devices</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Supported from Android 2.2+</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simple and lightweight mechanism</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Handles queueing of messages and delivery to the target App running on the target device</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not designed to sent a lot of data to the client</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It uses OpenFire, CakePHP, PostGre, PostGIS</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Client side is asmack etc</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more details are at <a href="http://www.appucino.com/">http://www.appucino.com/</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to Mahesh for the presentation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5 steps will do it</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Import jar</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">add declarations to manifest</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">decide when the panel appears and how the scoring to be integrated</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 lines in onCreates + onStarts</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when to show the gamebar</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This takes care of the social layer by adding only a few lines of code, allows to maintain leaderboards, find new people nearby who use the same apps, and also cross pollination of the apps.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Audience on web convert to iOS</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adoption is not good on Android : discoverability is an issue?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eCPMs are not good on mobile</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use the interface paradigm the device offers</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Single Click, never ending games do have repeat plays</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Update strategies</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ad network</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Games2Win Checklist</b></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Virality : can it spread?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Involvement : does it engage?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Community : does it involve my social sphere?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Task Orientation</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Originality : anyone else out there?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revenue Stream : has it been thought out?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yo Yo : Cross Pollination </span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Appucino</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whats imp for Games?</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea (Game mechanic)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Production (Story board, game design, art, programming)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distribution(Publishing, Virality, partnerships)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revenues(Analytics, Targets, eCPMs, ARPU)</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>10:48 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The intro session is over. We will soon move onto the 1st session, Appucino, from Games2Win, presented by Mahesh.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Intro session on, hence radio silence!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Few more people are in. Amrit has already started talking about DevFest.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b;">10:22 AM</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People are still trickling in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the venue. Chairs are still being pulled in.<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smsBlocker">https://market.android.com/details?id=com.smsBlocker</a></span></div>
Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.594562712.724026199999999 77.2787057 13.2191712 77.910419699999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-3867299609859338952011-07-23T10:11:00.055+05:302011-07-23T13:17:15.312+05:30Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 10 : Live Event<b>01:08 PM</b><br />
<b>eduPort</b> by Synqroid<br />
App provides many video lectures from multiple sources. <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.synqroid.eduPort&feature=search_result">Click here</a> for Market.<br />
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<b>12:51 PM</b><br />
<b>SnapTax</b> by Intuit.<br />
Used for filing tax in the US. Add a tax form, snap a photo of the W2, OCR it on the server. Review, pay and e-file. <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.intuit.instantreturn&feature=search_result">Click here</a> for market.<br />
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<b>12:37 PM </b><br />
<b>Yummy Trains</b> by Pranav<br />
Yet another Crowdsourcing app that lists the famous food from each location and is available in the station.<br />
Its on market, <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iiitb.android&feature=search_result">click here</a>. You can put suggestions. And you can search using train no to see the stations and the suggestions.<br />
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<b>12:11 PM</b><br />
As expected, 10 min break ended after 20 mins. Raghavendra is ready to take us thru his app demo. Beware, he is gonna suck you all in with his wit.<br />
His App is called <b>Power Cut</b>!<br />
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His App is crowdsourcing to map where power cuts in India. He says its a social project to help out people.<br />
He got help from Varun.<br />
App can register powercut, show reports, show news about it. It can also do push alerts!<br />
More info is at <a href="http://powercuts.in/">http://powercuts.in/</a><br />
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Code repository : <a href="http://www.assembla.com/">http://www.assembla.com/</a>, <a href="http://bootstraptoday.com/">http://bootstraptoday.com/</a><br />
For icons : <a href="http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/index.html">http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/index.html</a><br />
The app is still to be put into market.<br />
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<b>11:51 AM</b><br />
Ravi's session comes to an end. Break for 10 mins. Next on plate are the app demos.<br />
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<b>11:45 AM</b><br />
Few Bar jokes apart, Ravi showed how to make slider bars vertical, from the default horizontal, Create AsyncTask class for HTTPRequest, and won't have to worry about the threadpool, as its already there.<br />
Ravi's gonna share the slide, so please hold on for the URLs and the pics.<br />
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<b>11:26 AM</b><br />
Ravi takes over, says his topic name is not "Know Thy Code" but is "Know framework Code"<br />
The code he will be taking thru are Applications, Application Framework, and Libs. But most of it will be the framework.<br />
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A link will be shared to download the framework in TAR, and extract the code to put it in eclipse. Now you can navigate to these extracted code in eclipse when you are working on your app.<br />
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<b>11:25 AM</b><br />
There is going to be a hackathon for Tablets. People interested should contact Amrit.<br />
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<b>11:13 AM</b><br />
Zero budget marketing is about Value to users, viral loops, Company Blog etc and NOT FB pages, Tweets, SEO, Adwords etc.<br />
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Raman's session comes to an end.<br />
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<b>11:00 AM</b><br />
Viral loops work for the promotion of the app, without the creator's effort. Viral loops have to be part of the Apps DNA. e.g. 4Square.<br />
Lots of discussion about going viral. The backfire (Color), The intentional (Zynga), The unintentional (Angry Birds)<br />
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<b>10:53 AM</b><br />
Two BIG Questions<br />
<ol><li>Will Females like it? (its the slide, I Swear!)</li>
<li>What bottlenecks that existing or competitor apps have are eased?</li>
</ol><b>10:45 AM</b><br />
The next thing in line is UX.<br />
App Design guidelines<br />
<ol><li>Useful and to the point</li>
<li>Intuitive</li>
<li>Avoid existing Obstacles and and ease bottlenecks</li>
<li>Easily Accessible</li>
<li>Credible and Trustworthy</li>
<li>Predictable</li>
<li>Self Learning</li>
</ol><b>10:30 AM</b><br />
Key Question : "What VALUE will our app offer to our users?"<br />
What is NOT value?<br />
<ul><li>Real Time Details</li>
<li>Cool Graphics</li>
<li>Cloud Computing</li>
<li>Hi Fi Algo etc</li>
</ul><b>Morphological Analysis</b> - Procedure to shortlist features<br />
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<b>10:21 AM</b><br />
Session 1 by Raman Suprajarama - "<b>Product Management while building Android App</b>"<br />
<b>The PM Model</b><br />
<ol><li>Before building App - Appmeter Test</li>
<li>Building App - App Design</li>
<li>After building App - Launch</li>
</ol>Now comes up a slide while small fonts and large amount of info, and I am not gonna type it for you.<br />
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So here we go. Intro by Amrit.<br />
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<b>10:13 AM</b><br />
People started trickling in. And the organizers chatting in the hallway.<br />
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So BAUG is back to its usual self, and the meetup is also back to the usual place, ThoughtWorks.Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-39697222786181759592011-05-29T10:11:00.040+05:302011-05-29T13:02:08.319+05:30Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 9 (Tabs!) : Live Event<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>01:01PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are almost at the end of the session, with people playing with the Xoom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:39PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Native Apps</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though Native app support is evolving, its still not there, and to develop in Eclipse, you will need Sequoyah. However, things can work with a breeze if you happen to use the Motodev Studio.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Motodev Studio can be downloaded free of Cost from <a href="http://developer.motorola.com/docstools/motodevstudio/">here</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A demo of Motodev Studio is on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:20PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Testing Apps</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After some socializing, we are back to sessions, the testing side of the story.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There preferred took is JUnit. Logcat, DDMS, TraceView are the Devs best friend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strictmode API also helps build quality, as it catches the Disk and Network access in the UI thread, helping remove the ANRs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MonkeyRunner generates pseudo random events. Good for stress testing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Motodev Studio sports mem analyzer, App Validator, Integrated Emulator which improve the productivity even more. Its MonkeyRunner is more customizable too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:55AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Android 3.1, API Level 12</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Resizable widgets are here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New Input devices and motion events are supported. Such as Mouse, Joystick, gamepads etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">USB API is also new. Android now supports USB host support. The device should also support.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Official MTP support is also available via android.mtp.*.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:44AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is discussion how to track the devices as no method is foolproof. Some devices do not have IMEI, MAC Addresses are not consistent, Android_IDs are not unique, factory reset kills almost everything!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some best practices now, such as revisiting the images, permissions, font sizes, minSdkVersion, one apk rather than multiple.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:12AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Animations</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are 2 types of animations, such as View Animations and Property Animation which is introduced in 3.0.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sensors</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are only 30 apps which use Gyroscope. There are no apps which use the barometer. (BTW, what to do with it anyway?)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Want no rotation? use android:screenOrientation="nosensor".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Touch Screens</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From API Level 9, Android supports 10 finger tracking multitouch, and to use it, the hadrware has to support it too. Xoom does it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Telephony feature is not supported, but does support the radio for 4G/LTE networks. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:03AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Views</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are new views introduced in 3.0, such as android.widget.popupMenu etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HA is built in for a subset of 2D graphics (Canvas API). HA can be defined in the manifest by setting android:hardwareAccelerated="true" for the entire app or the activity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can also be done thru code by doing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Window win = getWindow();</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">win.setFlags(WindowManager.layoutparams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WindowManager.layoutparams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">);</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very much dependent on Chipsets. (Works in all API level though)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ETC1 on all devices with OpenGL ES 2.0, but no alpha.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PVRTC for Power VR from Imaginion</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ATTIC etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:45AM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allows an app to be divided into subcomponents, those can be individually managed and combined in various ways such as creating a multi-pane UI.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The APIs are </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">android.app.Fragment, android.app.ListFragment (like list activity), android.app.DialogFragment (A floating one). There is android.app.FragmentManager is there to interact with the fragment (findFragmentById). There is also a android.app.FragmentTransaction to do operate on fragments (add, remove, replace, visibility etc).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Holographic Theme</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MinSdkVersion has to be 11 to have it inheritted. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can dim the system bar by</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">View v = findViewById(R.id.viewid);</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">v.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_BAR_HIDDEN);</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">v.setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_BAR_VISIBLE);</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no Menu button. So if a menu interaction is required, the overflow button in Action bar is to be used.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Icon can also be made actionable. Action bar can have action items listed rather than in the overflow menu, both with icons and text and both being optional.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can get the action bar ref by doing a</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">aBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The action bar can be hidden buy setting the theme to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">@<em style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">android</em>:style/<em style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Theme</em><wbr></wbr>.<em style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">NoTitleBar</em></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are only 1000 apps targetted at Tabs, and they have better sales than the iPad apps.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intro of Moto Xoom on. 10.1" Screen, WXGA 160 dpi, 23GB storage, nVidia Tegra, gyroscope, WiFi, BT, HDMi etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 Hardware buttons, Vol up, Vol down and power. There is a system bar to make up for the other buttons.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sreehari to start now, has 11 yrs of exp, 4 yrs in Motodev.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some more people trickling in. Hope to start the event in another 10 mins.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around 20 people in the meetup now. A round of Angry Birds going on near the screen, in a Xoom.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a few initial hiccups, I am up for the liveblogging! MS gonna give the WiFi access in a while, until then, sit back and have a deferred live!</span>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-6895944062174510572011-04-26T21:02:00.061+05:302011-04-30T13:58:02.149+05:30Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 8 : Live Event<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1:57PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we come to an end of the BAUG meetup 8!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>App Demos</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Panorama of Locations : Crowdsourced</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://goo.gl/1nKuY">http://goo.gl/1nKuY</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google is one of the biggest commercial companies. Fully opensourcing Android will not be in full interests of Google.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comment from Audience "Opensource to me is modifying sourcecode as per my wish and not get sued."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comment from Audience "Google is taking the advantage of the word <b>OPEN</b>".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is difference between in Open and Opensource.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Open for users means, get app from anywhere and run it in your phone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Open for OEMs means modify the Source as you wish and don't bother about it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Google doesn't agree to bugs too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:31PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Panel Discussion on "Is Android Really Open?"</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Important discussion it must be!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 Panelists : 2 Saying it is open, 3 say not so much!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are diff levels of opensource, there are part of it opensourced by Google, but your phone still contains closed source components too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is practically no way to submit code / patch to Android unless you are a OHA dev.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Samsung published its Sources!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If honeycomb is not kept until wraps until its fully baked, otherwise it will fail like the java on phones which are incompatible with each other.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who is concerned whether Android is open or not? User, Dev, App Producers, OEMs, Carriers?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:45AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ravi's Session on Copyrights and Licenses</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Discussion is a prelude to the panel discussion about Android Openness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't copy code off the internet if there is no conditions mentioned. You might violate the copyright law and be doomed for the lifetime.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Public Domain is stuff not protected by copyright laws. Shakespeare, Ramayana are Public Domain.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OSS is not Public Domain, it is rather licensed sofware, more like windows, but with different conditions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apache : Give me Credit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firefox, Eclipse : Give me Fixes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GPL : Give me everything.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:35AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Least text inputs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">avoid complex interactions</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Better feedback in the apps</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High Contrast text is better!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amrit's session comes to end!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Design Considerations</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mobile is not desktop!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Optimize screen to show important info and actions</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consistent UI design</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usability Testing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lotsa discussion about usability!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do not make your app look like its on another (i)platform!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Technical Challenges : </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">balance in portability and platform capabilities</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Limited screen size</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diff resolutions, screen sizes, orientations.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Battery Life, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">limited resources, input devices</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unpredictable connectivity</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">High bandwidth cost etc</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amrit takes over from Sudar, for his session "Android Best Practices"</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjddrnVwoBT3ElWG0rO4r0v69qbHSQjA1NF8QI4E1EFKQdIVZy_N3bdeBrWe1duHHGeig1shKisQHXlyy8jj3lt51KdXiKb4sfRDGtOSXVlo1zZxqUv_OR2VoRBk1kAihWOGOiw/s1600/2011-04-30_11-11-30_523_Bengaluru.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjddrnVwoBT3ElWG0rO4r0v69qbHSQjA1NF8QI4E1EFKQdIVZy_N3bdeBrWe1duHHGeig1shKisQHXlyy8jj3lt51KdXiKb4sfRDGtOSXVlo1zZxqUv_OR2VoRBk1kAihWOGOiw/s320/2011-04-30_11-11-30_523_Bengaluru.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first one, Over Optimization.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The key challenges are, time to market, multiple OS version support, Diff form factors, Monetization.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:40AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talks about Arduino shields start. Sudar displays bluetooth shield, Ethernet shield etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Discussions about Host and peripherals.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ADB is a light protocol, which is going to be used to communicate between Arduino, which will have a USB Host shield, and the Android device.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Logcat will carry our messages/commands.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An app to blink lights on the Arduino shield is demoed. Looks cool. Gonna order a board now!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The source code for the demo is available at <a href="https://github.com/sudar">Sudar's github</a> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Discussions about real life implementations, program size, bootloaders, wiimotes etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sudar takes the dais, for the arduino talk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But with Arduino board, you can!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intro session started. A web / mobile app dev, a Prod manager, An retired Electronics Engineer and Arduino fan are with us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many Services Engineers are curious about Android here. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An LFY editor, many oracle guys(!).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And One man company working on Android Tablets.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The intro is over, without my intro :(</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:15AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People trickling in! And Akshay already started with the intro.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a college kid here!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:00 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very less people as of now!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here we go!</span></div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-22308471050531421582010-12-02T10:54:00.002+05:302010-12-02T11:08:38.644+05:30TaazzaGo the app : Review<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">4</span><span style="color: #999999;">/5</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Do you want your newspaper to put news around your locality in a separate section? Or may be a different version of paper for each locality? What would you do when you are in a new locality? Or temporarily want news from other locality, say around your work? How about getting some pretty good discounts for that Team-outing of yours and some tap on the shoulder from your boss? Or a dinner date in a uptown restaurant, which has discount just for you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of these are possible, and ready to use on the fly, if you own an Android device and have TaazzaGo installed! TaazzaGO is an app that concentrates on Hyperlocal news i.e. News around you! It covers 40 cities in India, and Hundreds of localities in each city. Apart from hyperlocal news, it also gives you city news, Deals around you and weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TaazzaGO is highly interactive. The first time you start the app, you get to set your location, which can be changed afterward as many times as required. Once set, you are taken to the main screen of </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TaazzaGO which has got 4 tabs. On the top left corner, you get to see the weather at your location.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The first tab shows you the city news. The second one is for local news, along with some deals available around. The third tab shows you only deals around. While the news items shows the source and time along with the title on City News Tab, they show distance from you on the Nearby tab, and Deals do the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On click of these items You are taken to the details screens where you can see the location and a read more link for news, for deals you get a new screen with 4 more tabs saying Overview, Details, Outlet and reviews which do what they say. You also get a buy button to buy the deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Cities tab on the main screen shows you the cities whose news is available, and click on that shows you the news for that city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is also a neat option of map, where you can see the news tagged on map. Other features include sharing on FB or Twitter, saving the news etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is the QR code, go download it, its free!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Pros :</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Very good looking UI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Relevant news, hand picked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. News on Map</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Good Deals</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Directions on Map </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Cons :</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. UI Sometimes hangs while loading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Not really designed for landscape use.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Not many Deal Providers. (Update : Seems my location doesn't have that many deals, so I can't see other deal providers.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find more at <a href="http://www.taazza.com/">http://www.taazza.com/</a></span>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-12537146049190411382010-11-27T07:59:00.055+05:302010-11-27T14:43:59.985+05:30Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 6 : Live Event<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:42 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The presentations are over. Vote of thanks to ThoughtWorks, for the venue and the delicious food!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:38 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neeraj talking about ODEX, and its implications.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:30 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neeraj talking about mem management. (People talking about bad performance because of OEM modifications.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:24 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zygote preloads 2000 classes, which takes a lot of time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Package manager scans every package, validates certificates, permissions etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:18 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bootup Sequence and Bootchart</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bootchart is a system to show the activities during boot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:13 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neeraj will be talking about : Bootup sequence, Bootchart, Mem Config, ODEX</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2:05 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Android Performance by Neeraj</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Android is not an OS, rather an entire stack. Initially meant for smartphones, now it is used in tablets, media players, Cars, TVs etc</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Licensing wise, the Linux kernel is GPL licensed, and everything else is Apache Licensed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other solution meant intelligent copy paste. Qs from people include, how will a general app from market behave? Ans is it by default sent to the primary display.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1:32 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Applications, Activity Manager, Window Manager, Surface Flinger, OpenGL, Kernel Driver support is required for Dual Display.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changes required in : Activity Manager, WindowManagerService, IWindowManager.aidl</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The change is complex, needs a lot of code change, not future proof, tough to make it work for more than 2 display.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1:28 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bhavya going techical now. Android supports Single display.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Manifest file is like surname, talks a lot about your background, says Bhavya.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1:20 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Advantages</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dynamic UIs, Content focus, ease of use, not loosing focus.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1:14 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dual Displays for 2 things in one. Not only for Cell Phones, but for many other devices.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1:06 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Dual Display for Android by Bhavya</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Post Snacks session</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intro about Teleca. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:41 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost over.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suggestion from Karthik is</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think Globally</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Build a sustainable business</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test and Experiment</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Optimize based upon data</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experiment.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">InMobi has 2M USD for World Developer Fund. People are encouraged to make use of it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:27 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Mobile Ads</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1B market in the US. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Devs need to pick a Ad network, according to their apps.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 types of network : Blind, usually pay per click. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vertical : Specific markets (Cars, Real Estate etc)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Target : need specific type of users.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:22 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karthik suggests doing mix and match of revenue model to get better results.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:14 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People asking Q about how to make the in app purchase work in case of games and similar products without loosing data.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>12:05 PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">InMobi has seen a rise in Android usage in last few weeks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:55 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Paid Download</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strength : Straignt forward revenue</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Challenges : Fixing the optimal price point</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:47 AM</b></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">App Monetization by Karthik</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 Different ways : Paid download, Freemium, Ad, Subscription, Sponsorship, In App purchase</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:36 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drawing to the end the session. Was a eye opened.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:23 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People are carrying around tablets. UID brainstorming still on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UID apps for Android, porting apps, Libraries etc are going to be the consumers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>11:02 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cool Demo of UID. WebService hitting the UID server, passing the Demographic, UID and finger print, and it works, pass a false finger print, and it says biometric didn't match!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:55 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People are trying to mind hack around UID.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:41 AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The UID registration app is being demoed.(its a desktop app). It is quite intelligent.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no standard Identity card for people of India. DL is a license to drive and not an ID proof. Same with Ration card, PAN card etc. And also is a headache to the issuing authority to verify the identity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This also makes other entities disbelieve the issuing authority. And have to do the verification on their own, which increases the cost of Service Delivery. Thats where UID comes in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanjay guiding the discussion. Video is on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Discussions on UID started. People think its good. But at the same time they think they will have somebody looking over their shoulders.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presentation all set to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:18 AM</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a freelance Java trainer around us!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some more people around now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:15 AM</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Event started! Badri started with the intro.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>10:05 AM</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People are still trickling in. Here are the few early birds. (Bhavya came late!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Everyone,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep looking here for the live updates! </span>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-89565762940674422822010-10-06T09:53:00.035+05:302010-10-06T14:30:39.741+05:30Android Developers Lab : Bangalore 06 Oct 2010<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>2:28PM<br />
Icon Design<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">PSD and Adobe Illustrator templates are available, and are highly recommended. </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>2:23PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>9-Patch Drawables<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Image divided into 9 pieces, corners not re-sizable, 2 sides are stretchable. Looks good even in resizing.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>2:12PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>UI design patterns</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Dashboard : Flavours, new features, 3-6 important features.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Action Bar : usually on the top of the screen, for most common tasks., replaces title,no contextual actions</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Quick Actions</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Search Bar, can replace action bar, suggestions</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>2:03PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>UI Guideline<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Focus on users</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Age, Skill Level, Culture, Disabilities<br />
What to do with your app</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Devices</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">How the device being used</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Right things visible</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Secondary stuff on options menu</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Proper Feedback</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Use at least 4 states(default, disables, clicked etc)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Be Predictable</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">If something is clickable, make it look clickable!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Activity stack to be used with care.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Fault Tolerance</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">CDD : Compatibility Definition Document</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Design Considerations</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Screen Size, Density, Potrait, landscape etc</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>1:05PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">There is a video for Cloud to Phone. Its not exclusive. Its on YouTube.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:43PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>Froyo Features<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Apps2SD</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Data backup and recovery</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Cloud to Device</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:38PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Audio and Video</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Can use the Android apps and MediaPlayer to play audio/video, local file or internet</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">JET Player</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">can be used in games based upon actions.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:22PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">OpenGL ES is the 2D and 3D rendering Engine in Android. The first Demo is coming up!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:17PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Location Services: Multiples service providers like GPS, Cell triangulation. Location Manager helps in there. Use Mapviews</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:07PM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Use AIDLs to define Services, to have long running processes (TSRs may be).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Q. Multiple processes, one AIDL? Complicated Q!!! As Services are running on different ports, no issues there. The AIDL stub will know which port to connect to.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:01PM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ContentProviders make it easy to share info, Use Cursor if using a SQLite, as it has callback methods which can update data without polling.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Content Resolver resolves content. default Content Providers like Phone, Contacts, MediaStore Video.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Q. Can MediaPlayer use my custom Provider? Ans is No.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>11:58AM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">AppWidget Contains AppWidgetProviderInfo, Layouts etc.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Live Folders, Search Box Integration</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>11:30AM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">res can contain layout, layout-land for landscape, drawable, values, xml, colors etc</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>11:25AM</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>Layouts</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Built in layouts, frame, linear, absolute, relative. And you get to build your custom layouts.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Q: XML takes a lot of time to design. DroidDraw also doesn't make it easy either.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b>11:21AM</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Featured apps have 10 times more download that non featured ones! make some unique app, seasonal apps, and get featured. No ports from other platforms.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Users love free stuff, freemium is also good, free with ads, Affiliate model</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Build a great app, market, make it easy to rate and comment, update frequently, target </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">appropriately.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sorry for the outage. Now on mobile tethered internet. Thank you google for not providing it on my milestone!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ADL 2010 Bangalore is going to start in 10 mins. Keep watching this place for liveblogging!</span></span>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-29762774779557391282010-08-20T21:22:00.002+05:302010-08-26T08:44:45.709+05:30A trip to Mangalore!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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It has been long since I have been out of Bangalore (Well, not counting visits to Bhubaneswar, my hometown). A welcome visit definitely (The deal is even better, I am here on business, company funded!)<br />
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The plan came to me yesterday. I booked a seat on KF, the king of good times! And to my surprise, when I saw the plane today, it was ATR-72, the smallest ever plane I have ever travelled on! It also had blades!<br />
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Got a prepaid cab to The Gateway Hotel, close to the beach! The rooms are ok, bathroom is good. took a few pics on the way and in the room.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;">Met another colleague, Anand Konda. We both went to The National Palace, had Bangda Fish fry, Chilli Chicken and Kerala Paratha. It was good! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;">It rained the next day. Even the cab driver suggested we stay back in rooms as we can't enjoy as much in rain. Had to watch Ajooba!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;">BTW the I had a veg mangalorean lunch! I liked the spicy potato.</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-8159582277972074312010-06-25T20:02:00.000+05:302010-06-25T20:02:22.865+05:30What if you don't get a good raise this time?I really think you should do the following.<br />
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Taken without permission from dilbert.com, <a href="http://is.gd/d3CsY">http://is.gd/d3CsY</a>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-64367355976976039192010-05-21T22:25:00.000+05:302010-05-21T22:25:25.908+05:30blogpost from bial on a motorola milestoneyes, i know that i can shoot a mail from my gmail or any other mail to create a post in blogger. but i thought that why not the android browser itself??? so here it goes...<div><br />
</div><div>the wifi connectivity is good, even from hundred meter outside the gates. blogger loads pretty well and fast. but there is one very serious issue, the text input. the text area in blogger does not bring up a on screen keyboard when tapped, so it seems there is noway a android phone without phycal keypad will be able to use blogger, or similarly coded sites.</div><div><br />
</div><div>but, its not all sweet for the physical keypads too. these is no way you can type a capital letter, or other chars which need special keys, in my case the numbers etc.</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-41230693753884750482010-04-24T10:30:00.054+05:302010-04-24T15:07:49.441+05:30Bangalore Android Developers Meetup 3 : Live event<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>3:05 PM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The meetup comes to an end. Kaiwan did a wonderful job. Thanks to Misys and Rashmi!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Kaiwan is now talking about kernel, both normal and Android. Thats all I can comprehend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Sorry for the delay in updating. I got drifted away by the discussion. Kaiwan's presentation was a real thought provoker. Can't capture all that people talk here, especially Kaiwan, have to ask him for his materials!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">FS used is YAFFS2.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Security : Process runs as a secure sandbox.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Kaiwan : Android is not (only) linux</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">All Apps are created equal.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:19 PM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> Manik isn't here as he got some personal emergency. The Founder of BAUG Akshay going to speak on BAUG.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Native vs Web? The question that has never ending arguments. Having said so, we are already late by 40 mins. The next speaker should be Manik Gupta, but, you never know.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>12:00 PM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Q : Why IBM isn't focusing on Web, rather than the Devices? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A : The browser inabilities. And the services. And restricted access.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><b>11:52 AM</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Rohan is now on to Android, from mobility.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Rohan : Where is Android is making noise? The automotive sector. Personalization is the key.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">People are still trickling in!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Rohan : Self checkout at retail marts using phones, reading bar codes etc. Nokia has done it. iPhone is trying its hand on it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Rohan : Why mobility? How mobile phone gonna help us?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Need real good connectivity, and not something like GPRS.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">NFC(Near field Communication) is a game changer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Its Rohan's turn now. He is a architect at IBM. He will be presenting Enterprise Mobility : Mobile technology.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Localization on Android? Good one! Spica has hindi. Seems OEM specific.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">After a lot of Discussion, like Android on iPhone, and Market data, there is some video from Ankit, who is in the last step of his presentation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">People started fighting on Flash and HTML5, just like the last time.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ankit : Google TV came on NY times, a JV between Google, Sony, Logitech and Intel. Sounds to me as the failed product from LG the PCTV.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ankit : Acer netbook runs Android. Car dashboards are running on Android too, and are using voice commands. Bosch parking Assistance s/w is on Android too.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">And Set top boxes are on Android too.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ankit : 30+ devices are in market. 50+ are yet to come.</span></span><br />
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And some tweets @galuano1 !Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-42799207846446649482010-03-04T23:49:00.002+05:302010-03-04T23:58:43.481+05:30Hobby / TimepassHaving a little work lately, mostly wasting time in office playing carom (my employer doesn't provide me with options). So my idle devil's workshop has come up with a agenda that lists<div><br /></div><div>1. Procure a Java web server, for god-knows-why reasons</div><div><br /></div><div>2. Build a USB Charger which will be using 9V batteries (should come handy in excursions)</div><div><br /></div><div>3. Work on Android for my employer</div><div><br /></div><div>4. Work on Android to publish a app in the market. (Got an idea from a team mate's plight)</div><div><br /></div><div>Of the aforesaid stuff, I hope, point 2 should be easy, given that I get the stuff I want from SP road this Saturday, and my friend Mayur helps me by parting with his soldering iron.</div><div><br /></div><div>Point 1 is also very easy, but that doesn't have a purpose yet, wait, may be I can start my own cloud! (Muahahaha! Another Idea, Muahahah)</div><div><br /></div><div>Lets see how it goes!</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-15111721453735876882010-02-20T11:36:00.064+05:302010-02-25T17:30:59.715+05:30Bangalore Android Group meetup<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div><b>02:50 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Video Address by Randy Ksar : 5 mins</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Some trouble in audio devices.</div><div>Bhavya tries to get the audience talk, but doesn't succeed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Suggestions coming in : More code intensive</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Off line Collaboration </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Form groups</div><div><br /></div><div>Still no sign of video though. May be the Youtube URL can be shared.</div><div><br /></div><div>Finally Bhavya tells us that she will share the URL.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qwvr3cb9WV8&hl=en_GB&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qwvr3cb9WV8&hl=en_GB&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><div>Thanks to Strumsoft.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>02:27 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Neeraj's Session : Android Content Provider : 20 Mins (supposedly)</b></div><div>(Last but one session)</div><div>Content providers are the only way to share data across apps.</div><div>Various content providers being Browser, Catlog, Media Store etc.</div><div>Question from Strumsoft cofounder : Who does the data processing, Content provider or the app?</div><div><br /></div><div>URIs are used to connect to the CPs.</div><div><br /></div><div>URIs are defined something like </div><div><br /></div><div>A. Standard prefix content://</div><div>B. Authority , means the content provicer</div><div>C. What kind of data</div><div>D. The record being requested</div><div><br /></div><div>So there are basically 3 ways to use CPs</div><div><br /></div><div>1. use the CPs as is.</div><div>2. Modify the CP</div><div>3. Write your own CP (oh how I love this one!)(I should have been a C Dev rather than a java Dev)</div><div><br /></div><div>For non ARM based development, do vitrualisation.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh Cool, the presentation is over!</div><div><br /></div><div>Questions that come is how to generate the CD images.</div><div>Things are getting interactive now.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>02:20 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Snacks Break almost over</b></div></span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>02:10 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Snacks Break</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>01:28 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Sandeep : on BONDI</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>BONDI was presented in MWC too!</div><div>Sandeep will talk about Mobile Web 2.0 and BONDI in it.</div><div>Seems BONDI brings the Desktop Browser features to Mobile.</div><div><br /></div><div>Challenges described by Sandeep: send a webpage as MMS, save a contact from facebook etc etc (on your mobile)</div><div><br /></div><div>BONDI doesn't require a browser. Can run, will fetch only the relevant info (eg Open Cnn.com on browser vs get the news you want on an app)(save bandwidth)</div><div><br /></div><div>Questions that arise : if we need a lot of widgets, its of no use. Sandeep agrees. But then, you really won't require so many widgets.</div><div><br /></div><div>BONDI Widgets vs other Widgets is like Java Vs C++</div><div>Write once run anywhere.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib6XLhB5Q5Bto-A3kD3Go3cPy3lktH1f0q-d6HgYrficFEU-PNbj3wh5BaD3pVxH3f2hq1IR0FIvBvd53ssZ68RETLH5iYatHskYzKiUxcC5vDXPVElIVbqv0AEWttD4BPx3lnMg/s1600-h/Bondi_scope.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib6XLhB5Q5Bto-A3kD3Go3cPy3lktH1f0q-d6HgYrficFEU-PNbj3wh5BaD3pVxH3f2hq1IR0FIvBvd53ssZ68RETLH5iYatHskYzKiUxcC5vDXPVElIVbqv0AEWttD4BPx3lnMg/s320/Bondi_scope.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440238940402881634" /></a><br />Its obvious that Bondi does use WebView. Also uses JavaScript libraries and WebKit.<br /><div>Sandeep now is demoing a few widgets.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>01:18 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Rajan : from MOMOB : the marketing guys</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>This guy seems funny! (Marketing and fun? Oh No!)</div><div>Now the marketting kicks in!</div><div><br /></div><div>The questions that gives it all "Why develop apps?"</div><div><br /></div><div>Ppl shout Lear, fun, earn, geekiness, Chicks!</div><div>People now talking about ways of making money.</div><div><br /></div><div>Its getting boring (I can bear it, if he can atleast gift me a T-shirt!)</div><div>Not related to Android at all. Though its good that he is sharing his views, and interesting views.</div><div><br /></div><div>His event is on March 27th, same day as IPL3 match Blore vs Delhi. (I can't miss IPL3, I booked the tickets!)</div><div><br /></div><div>Event registration : www.momob.in</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>00:41 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Debtaru Presentation : Tips and Tricks</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Deb is showing how to setup the machine. <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html">http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/eclipse-adt.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Deb seems to be a command line guy! (Remember "Bad Command or filename from DOS???")</div><div>Deb is now showing Android Database (SQLite3)</div><div><br /></div><div>Its getting fun here.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now onto the skeleton of an Android project.</div><div><br /></div><div>Install a APK from command line : adb install <full></full></div><div>(People ask what need to be done to hasten up the bootup of emulator, Deb says get a better machine with better config!)</div><div><br /></div><div>Now onto create a keys from keystore.</div><div>Questions from Strumsoft cofounder about why we need keys and the automation testing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Seems Deb is done with his presentation.</div><div>(He got a Android T-Shirt from his wife, Geeky wife I say!)</div><div><div><b><br /></b><div><b>00:35 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Coffee Break</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Did talk to the Engg student with a galaxy in his hand(MIB anyone?)<br /></span></b><div><b><br /></b><div><b>00:25 PM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">sorry for the non coverage. The net connection dies here very often.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">In the meanwhile, people fought over C++ / Java and many other things, and people too started interacting. Sounds very nice when you see some many likeminded people around!<br /></span></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>11:55 AM</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Building Blocks</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyKIf4CTrPMwXGNSVeSW-IDZjgJIh2wPYgeOQBe_bvBWWllSmv-OMrReYGD4n7xgEZJSqUnIIlr7eO3kZLcRrvxJ6-abNiKoQeM7nCMibUWP05NQ8_VbRGNNRbzMSFGPRjhJETA/s1600-h/system-architecture.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnyKIf4CTrPMwXGNSVeSW-IDZjgJIh2wPYgeOQBe_bvBWWllSmv-OMrReYGD4n7xgEZJSqUnIIlr7eO3kZLcRrvxJ6-abNiKoQeM7nCMibUWP05NQ8_VbRGNNRbzMSFGPRjhJETA/s320/system-architecture.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440209018224974578" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>People are now fighting over licenses!</div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b><div><b>11:49 AM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Srini : "Sony Experia X10 is very good on UI"</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Android : Robust kernel on Linux2.6</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Efficient DVM</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">C/C++ Core activities library.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Reusable application framework</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Its OPEN!<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>11:40 AM</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Srinivas is the first speaker today. Now he is showing some videos (He says they are inspirational!)</div><div><br /></div><div>The first video is about Nexus One.</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div style="display: inline !important; ">Srini :"Android is not only for mobiles, it is for a lot of devices"</div></span></b></span></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div style="display: inline !important; "></div></span></b></span>11:37 AM</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div>After a lot of toil, the WiFi has started working finally.</div><div><br /></div><div>The intro has just completed, and to my surprise, a few college students have also shown up!</div><div><br /></div><div><b><br /></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-66773441764559749822010-02-12T12:55:00.002+05:302010-02-12T13:07:00.876+05:30Events!This week is really eventful. Not that I undermine the Shiv Sena capacity to create issues out of thin air (MNIK!), its Valentines! Love is in the air, Youngster's love for their beloveds, Shiv Sena's love for Khan's Downfall, SRS(if this doesn't ring a bell, I guess Mutalik will do) love for Culture, and Peoples love for Ash on Mutalik's face. I am loving it!<div><br /></div><div>I also intend to get my hands on "Dork : The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese" by <a href="http://whatay.com">Sidin</a>. I would also like to read "May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss" by <a href="http://greatbong.net">GB</a>. Dear Valentine, are you listening???</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-12697569109704454012010-01-16T23:55:00.002+05:302010-01-17T00:14:04.812+05:30Long time no see.As usual, I am back from my slumber to blabber something. Days are being eventful for me. Falling sick, Diagnosed with Dengue, being veg for 10 days in a row (Lunch / Dinner either being Roti/Dal, or Subway Veg Delite) etc etc has taken enough of my time.<div><br /></div><div>The other thing I have been doing is Android programming for a Proof of Concept which, for me is like a hobby. though I was very much attracted to the technology when released, I lost touch owing to random stuff at office. But now, I am enjoying doing this stuff. It really feels good to do something different (And guide even senior people do the same.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Of late, I have been thinking to delve into the ROM making of Android. As of now, I am only writing applications and using ROMs designed by other people to flash the project phone. But it seems to be a better thing to learn building the ROMs all by myself, which will make me learn. Yeah, that surely will require a lot more time and dedication, as well as system requirements, it promises to teach me a stuff or two.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lets see, how well it goes. </div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-42578748291218173302009-12-11T10:57:00.002+05:302009-12-11T11:15:53.391+05:30Yet another blabbering!I am in BIAL now, leaving for a 24 day vacation to Bhubaneswar. It has been 8 months since I was there. <div><br /></div><div>The last time I was in this airport, The WIFI speed was excellent, it was surpassing 1Mbps per user! But today it is so so slow. It can't even run the speedtest.net tests! Even the Draft saving feature of Blogger is failing sometime.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wanted to write about hte CATastrophe on the 1st day 1st show. But that never happened, But in this leisurely time I would like to put my thoughts.</div><div><br /></div><div>1. I don't know about the Test System Architecture, but then, was the load test never done?</div><div><br /></div><div>2. From the news reports, I guess they used a Distributed Architecture, I mean individual servers for each test center, How come there were no backup servers?</div><div><br /></div><div>3. Prometric says it was a virus attack. There has been no recent upsurge in virus activities lately. And even if it was a virus attack, Which I find hard to believe, it is pretty unlikely that only this particular s/w was targetted, because no one knew, except the developers, what the software is like. And again, had there been virus, the S/w wouldn't have started at the first place! (FYI : S/W engineers take help of Viruses all the time to cover up there fault, cause Laymen have no idea what a computer virus is.)</div><div><br /></div><div>4. Don't you think IIM Profs, who are supposed to build Managers, don't even know how to manage a CBT is irony at its best!</div><div><br /></div><div>5. But this Profs are like those idiotic Managers those never accept their fault even if it is there out in the open.</div><div><br /></div><div>Signing out.</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-72701717021962915082009-11-01T22:35:00.003+05:302009-11-01T23:11:41.756+05:30Rock on - is it rocking?Its probably one and half months since I posted something. I thought I would tweet to make up my absence in blogosphere, but that didn't happen either. But I was kind of forced to put on this post.<div><br /></div><div>There is yet another reality show, called Rock On, which aims to create a Desi band and send them to the MTV show in somewhere in US. The honourable judges are Mr. Ram Sampath, Mr Nikhil Chinappa and Mr Kailash Kher.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nikhil : Judges pagalpan (Craziness), says he doesn't know what is it, but would know if you have it! what crap!</div><div><br /></div><div>Ram : judges Music. Period.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kailash : Judges desipan. </div><div><br /></div><div>On a vanila day, the judges will speak something like this.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nikhil : Wow! That was ... Awesome! ... What was that shit? It didn't sound like music, it was all noise! This is not rock! (As if he member of some rock band since his birth!)</div><div><br /></div><div>Ram : (Trying to cover up Nikhil's blunders in judgement) That was full noise and it was great! I liked it! </div><div>Then, like some high school history teacher</div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. X, you sounded exactly like Band Y's(some obscure band which could not sell even 10 copies) guitarist Z (was manageable, considering the Band's wholesome performance.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Same goes for other people in that band.</div><div><br /></div><div>After a few episodes, I felt that if Ram were true, all the musicians in the show are all fake, trying to copy someone, and get caught red handed by Ram while trying to do so. I wonder when would he be in the Copyright Infringement Prevention Board, so that all the plagiarism in bollywood would vanquish. (BTW, he recognised his music being used by the Roshans' in Crazzy 4, a feet reproducible by the likes of Anu Malik, Pritam etc) </div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Kailash : Mujhe yeh jo sangit tha, yeh samajh mein nahi aya. Par maine isku dhun pakad liya aur bahut upbhog kiya. Tumhe apne gayaki mein aur dhyan dena chahiye. Rock sangit main manushya ke awaz ka bahut mahatwa rehta hai blah blah blah...</div><div><br /></div><div>Got nothing more to say. The idiot box is full of crap, and there is no way you can stop the shit hitting the fan.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>update :</b></div><div>look at the description on this wiki page</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Sampath">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Sampath</a></div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-33792912368482783442009-09-13T01:40:00.002+05:302009-09-13T01:47:23.512+05:30TestimonialsToday, I just felt like going to orkut (Yeah, orkut isn't looking too good these days on my bookmarks, and I promised everyone I knew at college that I will be in touch in orkut! May be its time for a mass scrapping event!) and I read the testimonials, some old, few new, all still bristling with joy and still tell you what you are good at. they instill a new wave of freshness, a new belief in oneself.<div><br /></div><div>May be I am getting nostalgic. I don't feel like going to Facebook, probably think that it can't do to me what orkut has done. I need to go, I need to scrap everyone now!</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-48446782987876882992009-09-11T23:39:00.002+05:302009-09-11T23:53:39.172+05:30Gadget mania!I have been longing to buy something geeky for a long time now. My subconscience tells me to grab something, but then conscience tells me I have really got no use for it. I thought of buying a new 3G phone with GPS, but then thought that 3G isn't here yet (at least for my provider) and I need not waste money on a 3G phone now. On top of that, my 2 year old phone is still in very good shape!<div><br /></div><div>I also thought of getting hold of an Android phone (for a very different reason : to use it for a hobby development device), but then, those cell phones are too costly! 30K a pop!</div><div><br /></div><div>Thought of buying an PS3, but then, it has got nothing more than games.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anybody got any ideas? Help me! I will get maniac if these fever doesn't get over</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-4374373436015411982009-09-11T23:35:00.002+05:302009-09-11T23:39:03.817+05:30Domain NameWhen I renewed my domain name last month, little did I realize that I hardly use it, may be once a fortnight on average. On top that I got the domain for free last year, and it cost me Rs. 600 this year to renew. I just wanted to keep the domain name, though the name is something which will be surely frowned upon in a "Bhadraloka's " house.Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-64843996606140598792009-08-30T08:08:00.002+05:302009-08-30T08:15:18.120+05:30Fan of GB!I really liked the writing of Great Bong, whose blog link you will find on my bookmarks bar too, and now, I am a big fan of his twitts too! Cause 1st of all, he ain't twitt shit, last of all, he throws shit at shit!<div><br /></div><div>Love you GB!</div><div>(I necessarily do not agree with many of his views, but yeah, he puts the facts quite nicely!)</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-78706274933675837312009-08-01T11:35:00.002+05:302009-08-01T11:42:20.520+05:30The reality shows : Again!Reality shows are in news again, contestant porn clips, Real marriage in a reel show, divulging owns inner most secrets, they are all over it.<div><br /></div><div>Well, I am not against it. I like the show "Sach ka Saamna", I see how people cope with nothing but the truth.</div><div><br /></div><div>I also get to see how the real Draupadi and/or Sita swayamvar could have been.</div><div><br /></div><div>I DIDN'T (yet) see the so called porn clip.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank God, the Delhi HC didn't come down to Moral Policing when a PIL was filed against Sach Ka Saamna.</div><div><br /></div><div>I personally don't feel the Real/Reel marriage is going to go a long way.</div><div><br /></div><div>Whats your opinion?Do comment in.</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827639.post-7564951890675724392009-07-12T08:14:00.002+05:302009-07-12T08:22:09.516+05:30When is 3G coming to India???India Govt isn't thinking of the people that it is serving, when they go delaying the 3G spectrum auctions further and further, just with a aim to maximize their profits. But in the end, I guess everybody is loosing. The telco operators & handset manufacturers not having the cutting edge tech to serve the consumers and hence loosing revenue, the govt loosing on the taxes they would have gathered on the revenue, and the consumers are deprived of the facilities.<div><br /></div><div>What is the point? It just seems to me there is some family politics and money-exchanging-hands at the telecom ministry.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Can someone tell me when I will get 3G, so that I can have an excuse to change my 2-year-old phone (that still is in pretty good shape, and hence I can't dispose it off!) and get an Android phone!)</div>Pradeep Patihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10238484238864049581noreply@blogger.com0